News & Events > Medicaid in 2008 and Beyond: Challenges and Prospects

The conference program below indicates which speaker presentations are available (at the bottom of the screen). The narrative pre-event description of the event follows the program. Videos of all sessions are available. (Video files are large; downloading is not necessary, but buffering may take a few minutes.)

Welcome

James R. Tallon, Jr.
United Hospital Fund

Keynote Presentations
Video

• The Administration's Medicaid Agenda
  Deborah Bachrach, JD New York State Department of Health (Presentation available below)

• Medicaid in 2008 and Beyond: Challenges and Prospects
  James R. Tallon, Jr. (Presentation available below)

 Increasing Medicaid Coverage: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Video

Moderator: Joseph Baker, JD New York State Governor's Office (Presentation available below) Anne Marie Costello, MPH New York State Department of Health (Presentation available below) Melinda J. Dutton, JD Manatt Health Solutions (Presentation available below) Cynthia R. Mann, PhD Georgetown University (Presentation available below)

Strategies for Managing Long-Term Care
Video

Moderator: Carol Rodat, MA Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute Scott C. Amrhein, MPH Continuing Care Leadership Coalition Greater New York Hospital Association (Presentation available below) Michael Birnbaum, MSc, MPhil United Hospital Fund (Presentation available below) Carol Raphael, MPA Visiting Nurse Service of New York (Presentation available below)

Medicaid Managed Care Reexamined
Video

Moderator: Kathryn Haslanger, JD Visiting Nurse Service of New York Michael Sparer, JD, PhD Columbia University (Handout available below) Neil S. Calman, MD Institute for Family Health Tom Early HealthPlus Lisa Sbrana, JD Legal Aid Society Robert H. Thompson Monroe Plan for Medical Care

Perspectives from the Public Sector
Video

James R. Tallon, Jr. The Honorable Richard N. Gottfried New York State Assembly The Honorable Kemp Hannon New York State Senate Bruce C. Vladeck, PhD Ernst & Young

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New York's Medicaid program is a cornerstone of the State's health insurance and health care delivery systems, and a critical component of its annual budget.

A new federal administration in 2009 will, to a degree, reshape some of Medicaid's constraints and opportunities. But State policymakers will still face the challenge of managing the program against the backdrop of increasing fiscal strains.

This conference will examine those challenges, and prospects for reform, from a number of perspectives, beginning with keynote addresses by Deborah Bachrach, Medicaid director and deputy commissioner of the New York State Office of Health Insurance Programs, and James R. Tallon, Jr., United Hospital Fund's president.

It continues with panels of experts in the fields of coverage expansion, long-term care, and managed care, and concludes with perspectives from the public sector, presented by New York State Senator Kemp Hannon, New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, and former administrator of the federal Health Care Financing Administration and nationally renowned health policy expert Bruce Vladeck.